Textmerge

A custom tool to generate reptitive config files from either an input file or generated questions.

Installation

▸ gem install textmerge

Need to Install Rubygems?

https://rubygems.org/pages/download

1. Download from http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-2.4.6.tgz or download most recent version from above link
2. Unpack into a directory and cd there tar -xzvf rubygems-2.4.6.tgz
3. Install with: ruby setup.rb (you may need admin/root privilege)

Help output

SYNOPSIS

• textmerge help [COMMAND] # Describe available commands or one specific command
• textmerge merge -t, --template=TEMPLATE # Merge input with your custom template
• textmerge version # Version of Textmerge

Merge Command

DESCRIPTION

This utility will take a template that you have created with certain fields that are used to merge in data. Format for fields are as follows : {1:Question}, then you can have other areas in the document that replace the same data using {1:}.

EXAMPLE TEMPLATE

This is the text for your template.  You can include anything. 
{1:What is your name}.  Great, {1:}...now I know your name.
I can see that you live in {2:Where do you live}.  {2:} is a great place to live.

EXAMPLE INPUT FILE

1:Chris<br/>
2:Mountain View, Ca.

If no input file is provided, then you are prompted with each question individually, in order

GLOBAL OPTIONS

-t, --template=Template     #path to your template (required)
-i, --input=Input File      #path to your input file for preloading data 
                        (optional, will prompt for answers otherwise)
-o, --output=Output File    #

Sample Usage

Basic Usage

textmerge merge -t template.txt

Using an input file and specifying an output file

textmerge merge -t template.txt -i inputfile.txt -o outputfile.txt